8 2 lvfeditatio111 and D~fcour fes and do believe that the Son of God did rake our N"ature to be his c'lvrt, fo as that whatever was done the1'ein, was done by him, as it is with eve, ry. other man. Every man bath Humane natnre appropriated unto himfelf by an Incli'Vidut~l Sub-· fiji ence ; whereby he becomes to be that man n 'birb heir, a11d not another; or that Nature which is common unto all, becomes in him to be pecuIi .:.rly his OJLm, as if there were none Parraker of it bnt himfelf. ~dam in his ftrft Creation , when 2.11 Humane nature was .in him alone, was no more th~t individual man tvhich he was, than every man is now the man that he is, by his Indi- '0'jrfual Subfiflence. So the Lord Chrift taking thJ.t nature 'l.vhich is common unto all, in- · to a peculiar Subfiftence in his own Perfon, it tecometh his , 'and He the man Chrift .Jefus. Tbis· \vas the mind that 1vas in him. ?•. BY reafon of .this .Aj]umption of our nature, w !tb his doing and fbffering therein, whereby he was f./und in fa(hion aJ a man, the Gfory' ~f his .Divine Perfon was vailed, and he made himfelf of "/to rep;ttation. This alfo belongs unto his Con- ,]~(cr:;;Jion , as the fir1t General Effelt and Fruit of ir. But vtre have fpoken of it before. j. IT is alfo to be obferved, That in the .Af [ v.?JJption of our Na-ture to be h1s o1vn, He did not change it into a thing Divine and Spiritual; but preferved it entire in all its Effemial Properties and Acrings. Hence it really did and ft1ffered, was tried, tempted and forfaken as the fame nature in any other man might do and be. That nature as it \vas peculiarly his, and therefor~ he or his l)erfon therein, was expofed unto all the temporary ~
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